yes they don"t want to attract bad people to do money washing with video games !!! imagine that : using video games to do money washing, it will be pretty new no ?
I don't think it was a mistake. Such companies don't make such mistakes. And those half-explanations make the things worse imho.
I think that they wanted to do something related to crypto in their official store and maybe somebody heard that Monero is cool.
Just a bit too late the company lawyers (or somebody else, I don't know) have found out about this and advised them to not put they image together with something that can be associated with illegal stuff.
So they reverted the changes then posted "hey, look, an eagle"
this is pretty much what i think happened.
I have one question, that maybe is pretty obvious: does epic store accept bitcoin or eth?